Clay Bennett for February 21, 2020

And that’s using a more polite simile than it really is…

Trump expanding his voting base.

Shouldn’t that paper be on a roll?

That’s nothing to sneeze at

A tissue of lies. And you never have to worry about running out: Another one will always pop up.

Kiss the ring, get a pardon…

Unfortunately the tissues are for those of us who are saddened at the devastation of the U.S.A. by tRump and all who support him.

………..or on a roll of toilet paper considering the vermin he exonerated.

A box of Kleenex.. really? That is the best analogy Clay could come up with? Or was he concerned about the censors.

I mean these Trump Conservative snowflakes need their tissue for all the whining they do.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter whether the pardons are printed on tissues or hand-lettered on fine parchment. They still set guilty, amoral or immoral people free.

Previous pardons have generally been processed through an office in the DoJ devoted to that work. Under the Trump reign, that office has been essentially eliminated. The vetting is now being done by a WH committee under Jared Kushner, one of the members of which is Pam Bondi (the Florida DA who got a campaign donation from Trump and closed the investigation into fraud by Trump University).

The function of the clemency procedure has traditionally been to right injustice in sentencing, and current exposures of gross injustices are constantly coming into the fore in many states, often due to the Innocence Project. Under Trump, clemency has been grossly political without any concern for righting injustice. President Obama, however, did use the DoJ office, and the surprise is that it was only 1927 people, given the fact that the US has about 7 million adults incarcerated (we’re #1 on per capita incarceration—-whoopee-do). BTW, the huge growth in incarceration started in the Reagan administration. Make of that what you will.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States

Use it like toilet paper.

Any rich right winger can break any law and Republicans will change the law for a large donation.

I wonder how Mark Rich is doing?

When life gives you clemency, drink the clemen-aid.

He sullies everything he touches.

Maybe he uses it to clean up when he becomes too excited watching “Fox and friends”… I’m sure Hannity would be willing to give him a hand.

For God so loved the United States he sent his Chosen One so that whosoever believes in him will have his sins pardoned – Confucius